Chapters Quotes

• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Attitude

• Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

  

  Ellery Sedgwick
  • Legacy
  • Autobiography
  • Chapters

• You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't just have to walk around and play golf or do nothing... It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Play
  • Sick
  • Golf

• Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

  

  William James
  • Religion
  • Humans
  • Egotism

• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Together

• Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Book

• I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Memories

• Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Happens
  • Divides

• There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Slave
  • Instruments
  • Primitive

• The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moved

• The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Planets

• There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Chapters

• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Cards

• I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Book
  • Press

• Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Chemistry
  • Doctrine
  • Endure

• It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Book
  • Christ
  • Realizing

• So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Die
  • End
  • See

• The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

  

  Mike Honda
  • Needs
  • Awareness
  • Shameful

• The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

  

  Tom Hayden
  • Issues
  • Handle
  • Historian

• Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Book
  • Life is

• The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Week

• We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Writing
  • Language
  • Needs

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